Why the sudden largesse, Oh Tory Ones?

[Miljah]

How stupid must you think we are?

Admittedly, 37% of the country appear to lack analytical skills- or be wealthy enough to short Sterling...

However, if you had all this cash ready to spend on public services over the many years you have been in power... why the fuck haven't you?

You disgust me.

Financial markets fear a Corbyn government far more than a no-deal Brexit. The UK will probably be downgraded post no-deal Brexit but even more if Corbyn is in power. The bigger the downgrade, the lower the confidence, the more difficult it is to raise magic money.
The Tories have a record of austerity (and earlier, budgetary control) which gives confidence they will make hard decisions to repay any debt they issue.
Financial markets are not particularly focused on the conditions of the poor or the victims of austerity so compelling as these points you make are, they are not going to make much difference to how much magic money can be raised.

The PL do not just fear Labour policies for their economic effects. They are all reaching nervously for their wallets stuffed with bonuses and share options.

This is blatant electioneering - trying to buy votes with vague unsubstantiated promises of investment, higher wages etc when we have NO reason whatsoever to believe they'll actually implement these - we have plenty of reasons to believe they won't!

So just like every Labour manifesto since the beginning of recorded history then?

< googles largesse >

You can have a small, medium or largesse.

(Regular, Medium and Large in the USA)

You can tell they are getting desperate when they are actually trying to help normal working class people. Suddenly the magic money tree appears when there is a whiff of them being ousted.

Hmm, what's that? I hear a distant whir of a printing press....hello inflation.

Anyway, the promise of the minimum wage increase is just bringing it up to £10p/h over 5 years isn't it, at which point the living wage will be much higher anyway. Hardly throwing wads of cash at people. It's a typical Tory thing "We will bring things back to where they would have been if we didn't have austerity for the last 10 years, but you will need to wait another 5 years for this as we are doing it VERY gradually, at which point it will still be 5 years behind where it should be anyway".

Anyway, the promise of the minimum wage increase is just bringing it up to £10p/h over 5 years isn't it, at which point the living wage will be much higher anyway.

The minimum wage increase is good thing (doesn’t get me to vote Tory though), but it can’t be done overnight. Businesses (small, family ones especially) can’t just increase staff costs by 25% overnight!

And the minimum wage was just £5.80 pre-austerity.

@CendrillonSings it is pointless engaging with you as you refuse to consider the tories anything but perfect and the Labour Party anything but a disaster - on EVERY post of yours remotely relating to party politics it's the case.

I'm actually not a die hard labour supporter I'm a floating voter although I have never and would never vote Tory.

The Labour Party have fully costed their manifesto pledges - the tories are spontaneously without any research or planning into how they would fund their claimed improved investment in the country (which as several pps have noted is merely patching up the lack of investment by them in recent years) and STILL cut taxes for their pals.

They are not the party of economic stability that has been roundly and repeatedly disproven.

@Graphista you speak a lot of sense.

the tories are spontaneously without any research or planning into how they would fund their claimed improved investment in the country (which as several pps have noted is merely patching up the lack of investment by them in recent years) and STILL cut taxes for their pals.

While also threatening to carry out a policy that they admit will lead to economic hardship.

Agree or disagree, Labour can at least point to a connection between their policies and long held Labour beliefs.

Conservative economic policy just seems to be floating around in outer space.

The full extent of the madness is clear when you remember that they have been in office for 9 years, but the current Chancellor can't refer to the other two Chancellors for fear of being accused of disloyalty.

I'm actually not a die hard labour supporter I'm a floating voter although I have never and would never vote Tory.

I can only imagine what a die hard Labour supporter would look like if you’re not one...

Conservative economic policy just seems to be floating around in outer space.

Exactly!